The German Interior Business Association (Industrieverband Büro und Arbeitswelt e. V.), based in Wiesbaden, is the industry association for the holistic design of office work. As an association of manufacturers of office and facility furniture as well as acoustic, lighting and other equipment solutions, we focus on the central themes of employer appeal, holistic spatial design and New Work.

The IBA celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023. Ever since the association was founded, its members have time and again risen to the shifting challenges around them and thus not only responded to the constant change in the world of work but also shaped it. The IBA currently has about 80 members. Today the central topics of the association’s work are the transformation of knowledge work and, in a very general sense, digitalization. The latter process has just begun. AI, collaboration tools and much more will transform the way we work and the related demands on the physical environment.

At the IBA Forum we bring together work, spaces and people. That makes the IBA Forum the comprehensive expertise platform for New Work and the appropriate working environments. Pleasant browsing!

The German Interior Business Association is the conceptual sponsor of ORGATEC. This is where the members of the IBA present new products and concepts at two-year intervals. You can find more information here…

Office Service GmbH participates in many projects of the IBA. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBA, it provides services to the association and its members.

The first written document of our association dates back to November 1923. It was founded as an association of wood office furniture manufacturers in the form of a “professional division” of the German Wood Industry Association. During the early years, the focus was on topics including quality requirements for office furniture, freight rates, trade fair issues and the export of furniture, which was strictly regulated at the time. In 1984 the wood office furniture manufacturers joined the manufacturers of steel furniture to form the Association of the German Office Furniture Industry. In March 2000, the seating furniture manufacturers, who had been organized separately until then, were added, and the bso Verband Büro‑, Sitz- und Objektmöbel e. V. (Association of Office, Seating and Facility Furniture) was formed. The IBA’s Management Board signalled another change in 2016 by renaming the association Industrieverband Büro und Arbeitswelt e. V. (German Interior Business Association – IBA). Today’s name stands for the industry’s broad view of the issues of the future.